In Frankli, we provide Talking Point Templates based on industry research and our own collective experiences, to help you bring structure to your one-to-one meetings.
You'll find these templates below. To learn how to use them within Frankli when setting up a one-to-one meeting, click here.
Employee-led Conversation
Description: An opportunity for a focused, regular one-to-one between people.
What's the most important thing we need to discuss today? |
What obstacles are you encountering right now? |
What are the most important things you will focus on before we meet next? |
Performance Review Outcome
Description: An opportunity to discuss the outcome of a recent review cycle in a focused manner.
From your perspective, how do you feel you have progressed during this review period? |
Looking forward, what are some priorities we are going to work on? |
What's the most important thing I can do differently for you as your manager? |
Manager-led Conversation
Description: An opportunity to focus the conversations on your people's priorities and how you can support these.
Do you feel you’re getting enough feedback? Why/why not? |
How could I do a better job communicating with you? |
Which areas would you like more or less direction from me on your work? |
What would you like to see change about these discussions? How could we make them more useful for you? |
Focused on Career
Description: An opportunity to focus on career priorities.
What are the new things you learned at work lately? What are the areas you want to learn about? |
Do you feel like we're helping you advance your career? What can I be doing to help grow your career? |
What is one aspect of your job you would like more help or coaching with? |
A year from now, what do you want to have accomplished? |
Job Satisfaction
Description: An opportunity to discuss points related to the other person's satisfaction in their role.
Do you feel like you're growing in your role? What makes you say that? |
What feedback/praises have you been getting about your current priorities? |
What’s a recent situation you wish you handled differently? What would you change? |
What’s an area of your work you want to improve? How can we work together on that? |
Can you give some specific examples of when you enjoyed working here the most? |
Team and Company
Description: An opportunity to focus on team and company performance.
How would you describe how work is shared among team members? |
How would you rate our communication as a team? |
How would you say we're doing at working together as a team? What makes you say that? |
Who inspires you in the team? Whose opinions do you respect? What have they done? |
What's the biggest opportunity you see that we aren't thinking about? |
Work-Life Balance
Description: An opportunity to discuss aspects relating to work-life balance.
What is an ideal, productive day at work for you? Walk me through the day… |
What makes you excited and motivated to work on a particular project? |
What part of your work routine do you find is working best? What area do you want to improve? |
What’s one thing we could change about work for you that would improve your personal life? |
Goal Owners
Description: An opportunity to formalise discussion between goal owners.
What progress have we made since the last meeting? |
In terms of the Objective and the key results, are they still relevant? |
How likely are we achieve this goal? |